jueves, 4 de octubre de 2012

Perversions of the five senses: 1978 Jan Svankmajer





1. Homosexuality
Colour:
Pale ochre
Tactile Analogy:
Chopping up an onion, taking a piece in each hand and passing, with
rotating movements, over the naked chest, while at the same time
placing a large piece of emery paper between bare feet and gently
moving the toes of both feet
Smell:
Hot asphalt
Taste:
Recently clarified butter
Sound:
Strongly intensified sound of combing

2. Lesbianism
Colour:
White
Tactile Analogy:
Wrapping up naked in a warm plastic bag and rolling over a grassy
meadow
Smell:
Dry camomile
Taste:
Salt
Sound:
Pressurised steam escaping

3. Sadomasochism
Colour:
Black-orange
Tactile Analogy:
Gently slashing the tips of the fingers on both hands and caressing the
body with lightly bleeding fingers
Smell:
A wet dog
Taste:
Boiling jasmine tea
Sound:
Bird-seed trampled underfoot

4. Paedophilia
Colour:
Azure blue
Tactile Analogy:
Holding a freshly-plucked chicken under each arm while kneeling on
overripe apples
Smell:
A door freshly coated with enamelled varnish
Taste:
Flour
Sound:
Amplified sound of corals being spilled

5. Voyeurism
Colour:
Black-grey
Tactile Analogy:
Soaking the hands in chilled glue and slowly pulling them out a
moment later
Smell:
Musty old paper
Taste:
Alcohol
Sound:
Absolute silence

6. Fetishism
Colour:
Pink
Tactile Analogy:
Sitting naked, in an overheated room, on an eiderdown, covering a
rolling pin with fur and rolling it firstly all along the back (the buttocks
as high as possible), then from the top of the head over the chest and
the stomach and down to the toes
Smell:
Freshly clipped feathers
Taste:
What the tongue feels after pressing it against the metal of a streetlamp
in winter (at a temperature of fifteen degrees below zero)
Sound:
Tearing cloth

7. Zoophilia
Colour:
Myrtle-green
Tactile Analogy:
Gently tickling the inside of the ears with wild duck feathers
Smell:
A man's worn-out hat
Taste:
His own blood
Sound:
The bells of the church of Loretta in Prague

8. Gerontophilia
Colour:
Pale ochre
Tactile Analogy:
Sitting naked, legs apart, on the branch of an old pear tree (the branch
being at least 25cm in diameter) and driving fingernails into palms in a
regular rhythm (for about five minutes)
Smell:
Crushed cardamom
Taste:
Boiled oat flakes
Sound:
A stick dragged along a picket fence

9. Necrophilia
Colour:
Purple
Tactile Analogy:
Lying bareback on scattered peas, the shins weighed down with a block
of ice; placing hands, previously warmed in a muff of artificial fur, on
the forehead
Smell:
A sweat-soaked pillow
Taste:
Saccharine
Sound:
A door being kicked